Francis Bacon enjoyed loitering at the intersection of the affluent and the effluent.
In Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, turns his attention to another mad-hatter subject: maps. One character relates his country's pursuit of cartographical perfection in the form of a 1:1 map. Asked whether it is much used, he replies that it has never yet been unfolded. "The farmers objected: they said it would cover the whole country, and shut out the sunlight! So we now use the country itself, as its own map, and I assure you it does nearly as well."
Funeral
People from different parts
of one's life
don't know each other.
They walk behind the coffin
in silence,
each mourning
a different person.
Tony Kitt
We shed as many as 70 million microorganisms per hour.... making our home dust as diverse as a jungle...as our leftovers attach to other life and non-life forms.
‘It took me 50 years to become an overnight success.’ John Cooper Clarke
….used in a mass of Danish literature, a researcher described the emerging semantic pattern simply as: ‘childhood is the land of innocence, youth the land of problems?’
His name will be forevermore be written on the rocks in lead
"I took my dog to the lake, he stood at the water's edge and barked, the echo of his bark came back and he barked at it, again and again he barked at his own echo, thinking there was another dog on the other side of the lake. Welcome to poetry, I said." The Bark, Mary Rueful
